Editing Newstead Abbey (section)

==Monastic foundation==
The priory of St. Mary of Newstead, a house of Augustinian Canons, was founded by King [[Henry II of England]] about the year 1170,<ref name=PS>[http://www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=318057 NEWSTEAD ABBEY], ''[[English Heritage]]: PastScape''</ref> as one of many penances he paid following the murder of [[Thomas Becket]].<ref name="Irving1835">{{cite book|author=Washington Irving|title=Abbotsford and Newstead Abbey|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YXYBAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA124|year=1835|publisher=J. Murray|pages=124–}}</ref> Contrary to its current name, Newstead was never an [[abbey]]: it was a priory. 

In the late 13th century, the priory was rebuilt and extended. It was extended again in the 15th century, when the [[Dorter]], Great Hall and Prior's Lodgings were added.<ref name=PS/> The priory was designed to be home to at least 13 monks, although there appear to have been only 12 (including the Prior) at the time of the dissolution.<ref name=PS/>

The [[Valor Ecclesiasticus]] of 1534 gave the clear annual value of this priory as £167 16s. 11½d. The considerable deductions included 20s. given to the poor on [[Maundy Thursday]] in commemoration of Henry II, the founder, and a portion of food and drink similar to that of a canon given to some poor person every day, valued at 60s. a year.

Despite the annual value of Newstead being clearly below the £200 assigned as the limit for the suppression of the lesser monasteries, this priory obtained the doubtful privilege of exemption, on payment to the Crown of the heavy fine of £233 6s. 8d in 1537.

The surrender of the house was accomplished on 21 July 1539. The signatures attached were those of John Blake, prior, Richard Kychun, sub-prior, John Bredon, cellarer, and nine other canons, Robert Sisson, John Derfelde, William Dotton, William Bathley, Christopher Motheram, Geoffrey Acryth, Richard Hardwyke, Henry Tingker, and Leonard Alynson.

The prior obtained a pension of £26 13s. 4d., the sub-prior £6, and the rest of the ten canons who signed the surrender sums varying from £5 6s. 8d. to £3 6s. 8d.

The lake was dredged in the late eighteenth century and the [[lectern]], thrown into the Abbey fishpond by the monks to save it during the [[Dissolution of the Monasteries]], was discovered. In 1805 it was given by Archdeacon Kaye to [[Southwell Minster]] where it still resides.{{Citation needed|date=July 2022}}

===Priors of Newstead===
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* Eustace, 1216
* Richard, 1216
* Robert, 1234
* William (late cellarer), 1241
* William, 1267
* John de Lexinton, resigned 1288
* Richard de Hallam, 1288
* Richard de Grange, 1293
* William de Thurgarton, 1324
* Hugh de Colingham, 1349
* William de Colingham, resigned 1356
* John de Wylesthorp, resigned 1366
* William de Allerton, 1366
* John de Hucknall, 1406
* William Bakewell, 1417
* Thomas Carleton, resigned 1424
* Robert Cutwolfe, resigned 1424
* William Misterton, 1455
* John Durham, 1461
* Thomas Gunthorp, 1467
* William Sandale, 1504
* John Blake, 1526<ref name=BH>{{cite book|title='Houses of Austin canons: The priory of Newstead', A History of the County of Nottingham: Volume 2|year=1910|publisher=Victoria County History|pages=112–117|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=40090|editor=William Page}}</ref> 
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